• ... that the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has patented several antifreeze proteins produced by a species of kidney lichen, due to their ability to modify ice formation in frozen foods?
• ... that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast?
• ... that witches' butter is a jelly fungus that grows parasitically on a crust fungus?
• ... that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?
• ... that Banksiamyces is a fungus that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?